The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-03-05
Edited 9erus and 9utes.

AN0" AosDnmone LII bno name or Christ;
not one in the name of the Trinity"
The chaplain of the House Of Rep
resentatives failed to appear Saturday
morning, Feb. 10, and for the first time in
six years, business was commenced with
out prayer.
Sister Genevieve, who recently left
the convent at Newark, O., is living with
former nun at Ohillicothe, and has ap-
piled to the pope for permission to re-
tract her VOWS.
Mr.. Spurgeon does not very often
speak rashly, and he said few months
ago that English Nonconformity had
been "eaten through and through with
covert Unitarianism, less tolerable than
Unitarianism ITSELF"
Remarks the Boston Transcript
missionary Hume may go back to the
heather, but he mustn't let on that there's
a bare possibility that they'll be given
another chance after they have shuffled
I'll DhOI LAOI bdl COILS.
james Russell Lowell arrived in Chi
cago on Sunday He gave an address
before the Union League club at Central
Music Hall on Tuesday (Washington's
birthday and attended the banquet of
the club In the evening. He will remain
in the city week.
In the Catholic church of the United
States, there are now one cardinal, 10 arch
bishops, 81 bishops, 1868 priests, 1880
ecclesiastical students, 6,91O churches,
3,2ol chapels, 36 theological seminaries.
90 colleges, 593 academies, 1856 chart
table institutions. 1897 parochial schools
and 535, 725 pupils in attendance at these
schools.
1t seems to us that the time has fully
come to let the people of Canada know,
and let the British government know,
that the people of the United States do
not propose quietly to acquiesce in per-
slstent and wholly unjustifable violation
OF the rights of our fishermen. We have
discussed the matter quite long enough;
and now let us have some remedial legis-
latlon for the correction of these wrongs.
Independent
The pastor of New York Presbyte.
rlan church the other Sunday asked a
prospective teacher of his Sunday. school
to give some texts from the Bible in favor
OF infant baptism. The young man re-
piled that he did not know of any such
texts, and went on to say that there was
no more Biblical authority for infant bap-
tlsm than for the salvation of women.
But he magnanimously added, "Both
doctrines may be believed, however,
In an address before the Andoyer
students last week, a Congregational
clergyman said: "When you get ready to
preach, don't hang round Boston for a
supply, supply, supply, but come out
West, and we will give you a county as
big as the State of Rhode Island for a
parish; there's Abraham's call for you p
lie described one place whes hnt a
Sabbath, and had to wait till evening be-
fore the communion service could be
held, as the deacons were at work all day
Ii the mines. tell you, out there we
have to be practical, and take things as
they arep'
The Rev. Brooke HEREFORD, describing
the evolution of a myth" in his talk to
Sunday-school teachers, at Charming
Hall, humorously said Suppose that ages
hence the Three Back Bay Brooks were
the subject of archaeological investigation.
1t might be concluded that they were
three brothers; that they we're born at
Brook farm; that the farm was probably
situated on a great river, such indica-
ton being given by the names HEREFORD,
Stop-ford, and that the third brother was
named Brooks, in the plural, because no
singular noun was sufficient to express
him."
-"No6leSse oblige" is a prettily ex-
pressed sentiment, applicable to all in
PAOFSAoAOA2 w bACii pOW6T anu W0albD,
Dean Swift, in one of his sermons, thus
expresses the idea:-"We are obligated to
act as far as our power reacheth, for the
good of the whole community; and he
who doth not the part assigned him
towards advancing the benefit of the
whole in proportion to his opportunities
and abilities, is not only useless, but
mlschievous member of society. No man
ought to look upon the advantages of
life as his property; but as trust depos-
tied in him for the use of his brethren"
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has de-
cided to publish an autobiography. For
some time past many of his friends have
expressed desire that he should write
such book, knowing that outside of the
private history of the pastor himself his
comments upon the national and social
events that have occurred in his lifetime.
with which he was SO largely connected,
could not fail to be most valuable. Mr..
Beecher said, recently, that he should fin
ish the "Life of Christ" before begin
ming the autobiography. The former
work was rapidly nearing completion and
would soon be in the publishers hands.
-"Blue Ribbon Murphy" is holding
enthusiastic temperance meetings in this